88 Quotes On Success From The World’s Most Accomplished People

Success can be
defined — and achieved — a million different ways, and there
are endless perspectives on how to do both.

Some of the world's most accomplished people have spoken out
about their own journeys toward success, their thoughts on how to
attain it, and their feelings on finally reaching it.

Here are 88 quotes on success, from the world's most
successful people:

1) "Eighty percent of success is showing up." —Woody
Allen

2) "If you really look closely, most overnight successes
took a long time." —Steve Jobs

3) "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and
liking how you do it." —Maya Angelou

4) "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people
into thinking they can't lose." —Bill Gates

5) "The
real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you
won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction,
or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."
—Barack Obama

6) "Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your
own rules, and build a life you're proud to live." —Anne
Sweeney

20) "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going
to stop me." —Ayn Rand

21) "The best revenge is massive success." —Frank
Sinatra

22) "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the
courage to continue that counts." —Winston Churchill

23) "If
you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone
gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right
direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you
help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped."
—Melinda Gates

26)
"If something is important enough, even if the odds
are against you, you should still do it." —Elon
Musk

27) "Failure is the condiment that gives success its
flavor." —Truman Capote

28) "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only
through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be
strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." —Helen
Keller

29) "The difference between a successful person and others is not
a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in
will." —Vince Lombardi

30) "I work really hard at trying to see the big picture
and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this
planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose… When
you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when
everything unfolds." —Ellen DeGeneres

31) "If you wish to be a success in the world, promise
everything, deliver nothing." —Napoleon Bonaparte

32) "You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a
college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and
a dream." —Michael Dell

33) "Everyone can rise above their circumstances and
achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about
what they do." —Nelson Mandela

34) "Success is like reaching an
important birthday and finding you're exactly the same." —Audrey
Hepburn

39) "Success is often achieved
by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." —Coco
Chanel

40) "Do not be embarrassed by your failures; learn from
them and start again." —Richard Branson

41) "Judge your success by what you had to give up in order
to get it." ―Dalai Lama XIV

42) "As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the
standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want
people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to
be me in the future." —Indra Nooyi

43) "Think twice before you speak, because your words and
influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the
mind of another." —Napoleon Hill

44) "The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on
success but significance — and then even the small steps and
little victories along your path will take on greater meaning."
—Oprah Winfrey

45) "The successful warrior is the average man, with
laser-like focus." —Bruce Lee

52) "A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is
afraid of winning." —Billie Jean King

53) "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of
preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." —Colin
Powell

54) "Success is a great deodorant." —Elizabeth
Taylor

55) "I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he
said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes,
awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They
only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's
very telling." —Brad Pitt

56) "It
is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you
live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all —
in which case, you fail by default." —J.K. Rowling

J.K.
Rowling.Getty Images/Chip
Somodevilla

57) "Patience, persistence,
and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
—Napoleon Hill

58) "What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a
flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not
enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense
of purpose." —Margaret Thatcher

60) "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to
have." —Thomas Jefferson

61) "In order to succeed, your desire for
success should be greater than your fear of failure." —Bill
Cosby

62) "The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen." —Frank Lloyd
Wright

63) "If you have no critics, you'll likely have no
success." —Malcolm X

64) "Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it
couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination." —Michael
Phelps

65) "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best
place for the next moment." ―Oprah Winfrey

66) "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win
the war." —Donald Trump

67) "The most important single ingredient in the formula of
success is knowing how to get along with people." —Theodore
Roosevelt

68) "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but
in never making the same one a second time." —George Bernard
Shaw

69) "We need to accept that we won't always make the right
decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes – understanding
that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of
success." —Arianna Huffington

70) "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to
become a man of value." —Albert Einstein

Albert
Einstein.Wikimedia
commons

71) "I
have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
—Thomas Edison

72) "If you're walking down the right path and you're
willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."
—Barack Obama

73) "I always did something I was a little not ready to do.
I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow,
I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those
moments, that's when you have a breakthrough." —Marissa
Mayer

74) "The starting point of all achievement is desire."
—Napoleon Hill

75) "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation
with the bricks others have thrown at him." —David
Brinkley

76) "It always seems impossible until it's done." —Nelson
Mandela

77) "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going"
—Beverly Sills

78) "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried
anything new." —Albert Einstein

79) "We are prone to judge success by the index of our
salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the
quality of our service and relationship to mankind." —Martin
Luther King Jr.

80) "Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is
enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away,
and move on to something that's more productive." —Donald
Trump

81) "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."
—Napoleon Hill

82) "Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels
like your own." —Michelle Obama

83) "Success is how high you bounce when you
hit bottom." —George S. Patton

84) "Success is to be measured not so much by the position
that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has
overcome." —Booker T. Washington

85) "Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest
acts. This is the secret of success." —Swami Sivananda

86) "I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you
enjoyed the process." —Oprah Winfrey

87) "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure." —Mark Twain

88)
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is
why I succeed." —Michael Jordan